Multiple Movements?

Earlier this semester I sat down with a couple of ROTC students and shared the vision of reaching their campus for Christ. With their crew cuts crisply trimmed and pencils drawn they listened intently. “Over 50 years ago, a young businessman had a vision of reaching the world for Christ. A vision for helping to fulfill the Great Commission in our lifetime” I said. “He saw that the college campus was teeming with the future leaders of the world and he knew that if they could be reached today, they could change the world tomorrow. That vision led to the beginning of Campus Crusade for Christ. This is a movement that is spreading all over the world and we want you to join us.” The future officers cracked a grin and sheepishly looked down as they consider the invitation. I went on to explain how we want to put the Gospel within arm’s reach of every student in New Orleans by helping to build spiritual movements everywhere.

What does that mean? What does it look like to have movements everywhere? For starters it means helping to build ministries and outreaches that are relevant to the different subcultures that exist on a college campus so that students can see and savor Jesus Christ in a way that they understand. Tulane is a great example of a campus with multiple movements.

We have four movements currently at work, helping to reach the students of Tulane. Cru, Impact, Valor and Bridges all work together to help fulfill the vision of multiple movements. Cru, otherwise known as “Fuel” is the traditional Campus Crusade movement. Impact is the ministry toward African American students. Valor is for the ROTC students and Bridges is an outreach to International students. Once a month we bring all the leaders of the movements together so that we can worship, share ideas and praise God for what he is doing. Thank you for all that you do to help spread the aroma of Christ everywhere.

Dave & Jessica